Microsoft Certification Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 118 163
Rank change year-on-year +2 +45 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 12 17 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.60% 0.72% 0.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.40% 3.33% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 11
10th Percentile £286 £263 £413
25th Percentile £397 £406 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £692 £679 £657
90th Percentile £762 £750 £700
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 500 510 787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.86% 21.52% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 319 477
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £463 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
London median daily rate £525 £525 £560
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 6
10th Percentile £25.04 £20.22 £17.31
25th Percentile £26.57 £20.29 £18.56
Median hourly rate £34.48 £24.00 £36.10
Median % change year-on-year +43.67% -33.52% -17.01%
75th Percentile £57.96 £27.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £65.57 £35.38 £68.75
London median hourly rate £26.32 £25.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year +3.22% -52.78% +27.06%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Microsoft Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Central London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Certification in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Central London region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -1 12 £606 +5.43% 32
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
5 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (8.33%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
1 1 (8.33%) Intranet
1 1 (8.33%) IP Telephony
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) NAS
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) International Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 3 (25.00%) Desktop Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Support
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Support Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Support Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (8.33%) ADO
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (8.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) iPad
1 3 (25.00%) iPhone
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (8.33%) Mac OS X
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Investment Management
4 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) CRM
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 2 (16.67%) Information Security
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) Observability
5 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (16.67%) MCSE
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (8.33%) MCSA
4 1 (8.33%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Istio
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Apple
2 1 (8.33%) Avaya
2 1 (8.33%) Citrix
2 1 (8.33%) Polycom
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Wyse